Can the private sector help the Syrian refugee crisis?
Today I spoke to the BBC World Service about the worsening refugee crisis in Lebanon and the…
Getting access to information in Lebanon
How hard is it to get information from the Lebanese government? The answer may surprise you. I…
The paralysis of self-loathing
The following piece was published in the May issue of Bold Magazine, but both the subject and self-loathing…
Abdullah everywhere
That’s Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah in Hamra traffic tonight. Ever since the monarch pledged $3 billion to arm…
Home to party? Why not help out too.
It’s that time of year again and the bars and pubs of Mar Mikhael, Gemmayze and Hamra are…
Lebanon’s failure to fund a crisis
This piece was originally published in the December issue of Bold Magazine. Aid: Lebanon’s Mission Impossible IT HAS BEEN…
Technology in the camp
On my recent trip to a Syrian refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley, I was struck by a…